St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

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"a b full growth of St. Paul
lJs3 &a.N 81 during the past year
n g has not been confined
SIE>EG. within the narrow
aaAn bounds of the city,
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@HIUI//IX SOme-dOzen prosper
Gus anu sold suburban towns stand as
monuments of the business push and
enterprise of st. Paul. While these
places are not within the city limits, yet
their population, being in the main made
up of people engaged i'll business in the
city, and the improvements, too, being
made by st. Paul capital, they right
fully belong in a synopsis of
the city'S growth. Something
like s3,000,000 were invested in
these suburban towns during the
year. North st. Paul, st. Paul Park,
1nver Grove, Gladstone, Lincoln Park
and Burlington heights have all sprung
into existence in the last six months.
So rapid a growth has certainly meyer
before been seen in the Northwest.
Log shantieS, huts and shacks can be
put DIP in day, but manufacturing
towns like South st. Paul, st. Paul Park
By far the largest amounts have been
invested in North and in South st.
Paul, the improvements in the former
place amounting to the enormous sum
of 81, 119, 800. and in the latter S603, 700.
In South Park S138,00 have been eX-
pended in buildings during the year;
in st. Paul Park, s297, $50; in Gladstone,
S97, 900; in inVer Grove, S24, 200; in Lin
coin Park, 900, and in Newport, S32,
200.
SOUTH ST. PAUL.
The principal item in the South st.
Paul list is that invested in the stock
yards. Here, during the year, has been
expended 100000 in the various build
ings needed in that business. Some
forty acres of land have been covered
with buildings and cattle sheds, and
over thirty miles of 5ide-track have been
graded by the company. thus giving
them railroad facilities unequaled by
any similar concern in the United
States. Last year about 5000, 900 were
expended in putting in foundations and
starting the work which has been so
rapidly prosecuted during the
year now near an end. The work
of 1887 has been principally on
the pork killing house, .162X50 feet, four
stories high, and built of brick; brick
engine room, 67X40, one story high; a
smoke house, four stories high, 135X50,
and built of brick; three-StOry brick
blood room, 19X22; brick refinery, four
stories high, 244XSl; another brick en-
CINE room, 24X60; Il fOur-StOry ware
house, 162X207: a brick fertilizer house,
97X49; beef house, 200xl00 feet, four
stories high and built of brick: brick
fertilizer house No. ,, 97X49; lard re-
finery, four stories in height, built of
brick, 50X125; another brick engine
house, 50X50, and one story high; two
coal houses, built of brick and 20X66;
two ice houses, each 162X150 and forty
feet high with an engine room for each
house. and, finally, thirty acres of cattle
sheds, arranged in lots, blocks and
sections like an ordinary city, and
covering considerably more ground
than many booming town.
But the building in South st. Paul has
not been confined to the stock yards
alone, something over $4,000 having
been put in houses and business blocks
in the village. OF course, the most i'm
pOrtant building is the union stock
yards exchange, a handsome four-story
brick and stone building, the total cost
of which has been about SO, 000-S50. 900
of which was paid out during the past
year. Then the Mannheimer block,
erected at cost of $4,000; the CONNER
cial hotel, costing $500, and five brick
school buildings, worth $1,000 each, are
worthy of more than passing notice.
TO THE NORTH.
North st. Paul, with grand total of
over $60I. 0G0 invested in buildings in
the last six months, is justly entitled to
the second place on the list of suburban
villages. Factories, to the number of
eight or ten, houses, hotels, stores,
Office buildings and saloons have sprung
up on every hand and the wilderness,
or rather barren plain of six months ago
is prosperous town to-day, regularly
laid out, with handsome tWO-StOry brick
school house, and every advantage of a
town of its size, however old the latter
may be. In the six months since the
North st. Paul Land company took
hold of this 700-acre tract of land,
twenty-five miles of street have been
graded, seven miles of sidewalk laid,
200 houses erected. while three hotels
and a half dozen saloons show that
North st. Paul has the spirit and man.
ners and institutions of true Western
town. The smoke of half dozen large
factories atteSts the wisdom of the found
ers of North St. Paul, which gives every
promise of future prosperity and ulti-
mate fulfillment of the plans and hopes
of her fOunders-that is to make North
st. Paul a great and prosperous manu-
featuring suburb of st. Paul. The
leading Industries now located there are
the Harris Manufacturing company, the
Pruden Stove company. the Enterprise
Manufacturing company, the Cramer IL
COney Manufacturing company, the
Beach Wagon company. the Luger Fur
niture company. the St. Paul Iron COM
pany, and the North st. Paul Brick
company. The Wisconsin Central line
has positively determined to locate
their shops at North st. Paul and
will commence work there early in
the spring. The principal buildings
erected during the year are:
The Pruden Stove company, two-story
brick factory costing $4,000; the st.
Paul Iron company, two-story brick
factory and foundry at cost of S35, 900;
the Luger Furniture company, three
story brick factory, tour-StOry ware
house, dry kilns, etc, costing $4,000;
the Beach Wagon company, five-story
brick factory with dry kiln, ETC., cost
about $4,000; the Northwestern Ken
mel club, kennels and club house,
$4,000, and the North ST. Paul Cottage
company, eighty-seven cottages, about
100000. With this wonderful start,
SURPRISING even the most sanguine ex-
pectations of the founders of the town,
it is easy to imagine that FIVE years later
will see North St. Paul the home of a
busy, rustling population, numbering